Best Start in Life Coordinator

Best Start in Life Coordinator
SO1 (£34,434 £39,152)
37 hours, Full-Time
Permanent
Various locations across Stockport

Application Deadline: 10th August 2026 11:59pm
Shortlisting Date: 11th August 2026
Interview Date: 18th August 2026
Interview Type: Face to Face

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Your Role

This is an exciting opportunity to join Stockport Family as a Best Start in Life Coordinator, playing a key role in improving outcomes for children aged 05 and their families through the delivery of targeted Early Help, Family Hub and Best Start for Life support.

Working within a multi-disciplinary neighbourhood team, you will provide strengths-based, whole-family support, helping families to overcome challenges, build resilience and improve outcomes in areas including school readiness, communication and language development, social and emotional wellbeing, and positive parenting.

You will undertake assessments, coordinate family support plans and act as Lead Professional where appropriate, ensuring children and families receive timely and effective support. You will work closely with parents, carers, early years providers, health professionals and partner agencies, leading Team Around the Family and Team Around the Early Years meetings to deliver coordinated and outcome-focused interventions.

Alongside delivering evidence-based interventions, you will use your professional judgement to assess needs, manage risk, identify emerging concerns and support families to access the right services at the right time. Through relationship-based practice you will help prevent escalation to statutory services and ensure every child has the best possible start in life.

About You

We are looking for a motivated, compassionate and skilled practitioner who is passionate about improving outcomes for children and families. You will have experience of working with children aged 05 and their families, delivering targeted support, undertaking assessments and coordinating multi-agency interventions.

You will be confident in building positive relationships with families and professionals, including those who may be reluctant to engage with services. You will have excellent communication skills, strong professional judgement and the ability to work collaboratively with a wide range of partners to achieve positive outcomes for children.

You will bring knowledge of child development, school readiness, safeguarding and early intervention, alongside experience of delivering evidence-based interventions and supporting families with complex and often challenging circumstances.

Organised and proactive, you will be able to manage competing demands, maintain accurate records and use performance information to monitor progress and demonstrate impact. Above all, you will share our commitment to inclusion, reducing inequalities and ensuring children and families receive the support they need to thrive.

About Us

As part of Stockport's Family Hub and Best Start for Life offer, you'll join a supportive and ambitious team committed to giving every child the best possible start in life. Working alongside experienced colleagues and partner organisations, you will play a key role in delivering high-quality early intervention and family support services across the borough.

We offer a collaborative working environment where your contribution is valued and where you will have access to a wide range of learning, development and progression opportunities. Whether developing your expertise in Early Help, evidence-based interventions, safeguarding, SEND or multi-agency working, you'll be supported to grow your skills and career.

At Stockport Council we are one ambitious team on a mission to create opportunities for everyone who lives, works and spends time in the borough. Working at Stockport Council means contributing to one of the most thriving towns in the North. We're keen to recruit people with the right values and behaviours that can help us ensure our workplace values are at the heart of everything we do.

We are proud to be recognised under the Good Employment Charter as an organisation committed to the wellbeing of our colleagues. As members of the charter, we have been recognised as a great place to work for all colleagues and pledge to pay the Real Living Wage, engage staff in key decisions and endorse fair and flexible working conditions.

At Stockport Council we are one ambitious team on a mission to create opportunities for everyone who lives, works and spends time in the borough. Working at Stockport Council means contributing to one of the most thriving towns in the North. We’re keen to recruit people with the right values and behaviours that can help us ensure our workplace values are at the heart of everything we do.

We are proud to be recognised under the Good Employment Charter as an organisation committed to the wellbeing of our colleagues. As members of the charter, we have been recognised as a great place to work for all colleagues and pledge to pay the real living wage, engage staff in key decisions and endorse fair and flexible working conditions.

If you would like to find out more about the role please contact either Hayley Rowen hayey.rowen@stockport.gov.uk or Laura Hindhaugh laura.hindhaugh@stockport.gov.uk for an informal discussion about the role

The successful applicant’s appointment will be subject to satisfactory pre-employment clearances including a Disclosure and Barring Service check.

Stockport Council holds a Visa sponsorship licence but this can only be used for certain roles and this campaign does not currently qualify.

Please note that we have made a commitment to improve the employment opportunities for people with disabilities, care leavers and ex-military personnel. As part of the Guaranteed Assessment Scheme you will therefore be guaranteed an interview if you meet both the criteria for the scheme and the essential job role criteria.

Find out if you meet the criteria here: https://www.greater.jobs/our-guaranteed-assessment-scheme

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